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Post by samuelwhiskers on Apr 10, 2021 17:54:36 GMT
Simon’s desperate to run the NT, but maybe. He’s be a great choice. Hard to imagine he’d get the NT job, plenty of female directors would probably apply and so be preferred, probably rightly. I just think the RSC job is far less attractive and may attract fewer applications. It’s a pity he’s based in USA anyway, a major job here should surely be found for him. Yes, I agree with that. A few people have told me they think Vicky Featherstone will be the next NT AD, which I can see very easily. If not Vicky then I think another woman. Honestly I’m so ready for both Norris and Doran to leave. Uninspired leadership, though the NT’s work during lockdown has redeemed itself somewhat.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Apr 10, 2021 8:16:19 GMT
Simon’s desperate to run the NT, but maybe. He’s be a great choice.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 25, 2021 11:09:13 GMT
You can certainly privately condemn them on the basis that 20 actors you know have reported being harassed by them, and that is exactly what producers should be doing: due diligence to keep employees and freelancers safe.
Everyone in the industry knows who the abusers are.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 14, 2021 20:17:31 GMT
I’ve seen photos of the posters. Most of the names do not surprise me.
I’m not sure if people who don’t work in the industry realise how open sexual abuse and harassment is, or how much infamous predators are protected. There are sets and rehearsal rooms where certain men are not allowed to be alone with women, or even in some cases not allowed to be alone with children, because the company knows he is dangerous. If you have enough knowledge to hire people to ensure someone isn’t alone with women, you have enough knowledge not to cast or hire them in the first place.
What Helen is doing which is so valuable is collating hundreds of reports to see which names keep appearing. I’ve had many conversations this week and before with young actors expressing, “I want to report but what happened wasn’t bad enough for the police, and I’ve not heard anyone else complain, maybe I’m the only one who had a problem with him, maybe it’s my fault.” If you know six other women feel the same and are potentially willing to speak up that might change your mind about reporting.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 12, 2021 19:51:02 GMT
The RF have access to the best and most expensive teams of publicists in the world and have most of the British media willing to play along, yet they're rubbish at even basic PR. They haven't changed their PR strategies since the 80s and are out of touch.
The PR stunts they've pulled are just laughable. Like something out of a satire. The budget airline stunt. William being hustled into a mask when he didn't wear one during crowded meet'n'greets and shoved in a car (to combat the claim Meghan wasn't allowed to drive) and told to drive around look tearful in front of the invited paps. The press office scrambling to call the a Rent-a-Minority agency to find black women willing to put on African-looking clothes and trot around after Will and Kate for the paps, or shake hands with Charles for the paps. Is the RF press office so stupid and racist they think the public will buy these cheap and exploitative PR stunts, or is the problem they think we are?
Meghan could have been a huge asset. She's beautiful and charismatic and has an enviable work ethic. Who else in the RF is willing to get up at 5am and spend all day with women being supported by a charity? Anne certainly, probably Sophie, maybe Camilla if she's allowed to knock off for a gin and a nap at lunchtime. Most of the senior royals are ageing and William and Kate are completely work-shy. The RF need glamorous young people who the British public can connect with. Diana and Meghan both had the knack of connecting with ordinary people and the RF resented them rather than utilizing them.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 9, 2021 6:51:18 GMT
If you take that view you are perpetuating the problem. It really doesn't require a huge amount of thought to realise that any question about someone's skin colour might be considered inappropriate by someone of a different racial background and to choose to do your own research rather than asking the question. That is not me making any sort of judgment on what IS offensive or inappropriate, but on what MIGHT be (though in this case it is blindingly obvious that it is in any context) and choosing accordingly not to ask the question. I am choosing not to put someone of different racial heritage in a position that may be uncomfortable to them - it is not my place to decide that they should have to tolerate that when the topic is race. If they want to start that conversation then it is an entirely different scenario as that is their right, not mine. If anything else it is just basic politeness and consideration for someone else who is in a situation that because of my racial background I cannot possibly fully understand. But my responsibility is to learn about it in a respectful way, not expect that I can find out by asking questions no-one would ever dream or asking a white person. And the generational argument is no excuse. There is no excuse for any level of racism, whether deliberately or not. I'm astonished at some of the responses I have read on here and elsewhere following this interview. It's sad to see the extent that lack of racial understanding and compassion are still a huge problem. Largely I agree with you, but in Britain race is a taboo subject. We don’t see it, we don’t acknowledge it and we do not discuss it. In Britain I’d argue most people are not racist but the way in which we have achieved this has created its own problems - primarily that a lot of people cannot recognise things like institutionalised racism or white privilege. Not recognising it doesn’t make you racist, it just means you need to have discussions on race and become part of a conversation in order to become better educated. People (but mostly younger people) are becoming more aware thanks to the BLM movement, but if you don’t know that you don’t know something, how does someone go away and learn it? Conversation is key and we have to make it okay for people to discuss race in a safe way. In my opinion family should always be a safe space where you can discuss anything and everything behind closed doors, without being judged. They should correct you if you’re wrong, but never judge you for it (unless there is malicious intent) and a free exchange of ideas and opinions should be encouraged. Historically we’ve said racism (and homophobia) are learnt behaviours in the home, but at least we know now that it’s also where they’re being challenged too - younger generations are having to re-educate older generations as society moves forward. Just look at new terms like ‘Woke’ and ‘WAP’ - I bet you most people over 50 couldn’t tell you what in hell they actually mean. Now in the context of this Harry and Meghan interview, which I haven’t yet seen, we know the conversation was between a Royal Family member and Harry - so not with Meghan and very much a white person asking a white person. Let’s assume this was a tactful move to avoid causing offence by discussing race with Meghan, showing some form of a moral compass. It was behind closed doors, family asking family, almost certainly an older generation asking a younger generation - fundamentally a safe space. Of course Harry had violated that safe space by making the conversation, if not the family member, public. Again I don’t know the details, but you would hope Harry could politely correct his relative and explain it wasn’t appropriate - and explain why if needs be. I don’t know that it needed to be made public either, but I’ll wait until I’ve seen it. I don’t agree at all that race is “taboo” in Britain, or that most Brits aren’t racist. Britain is a deeply racist country. Ignoring, downplaying, or excusing racism is 100% racist. Harry and Meghan explained the context of the conversations. There’s no way it wasn’t explicitly and overtly racist. Anyone defending racism is a racist. Period. And guff about how speaking out against racism is betraying a safe space is a classic tactic used to silence victims of abuse.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 5, 2021 18:28:36 GMT
The RF must be really terrified at what dirt she might spill about them, to be conducting such a huge smear campaign against her.
Reminder that the Palace leaked almost identical “bullying allegations” against Diana the week before her Martin Bashir interview aired.
*grabs popcorn*
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 1, 2021 22:22:17 GMT
When have they ever said they don’t want to be in the spotlight?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 27, 2021 16:58:38 GMT
If William’s so desperate for Harry’s “support” he shouldn’t have used Harry as a whipping boy. Doing things like publicly snubbing/blanking Meghan, staging cheesy pap stunts like the budget airline one to hypocritically score points and make Harry look bad, and almost certainly leaking info to the press about Harry (even if William wasn’t personally involved in the leaks, which is unlikely, he didn’t act when the leakers on his team were exposed as taking tabloid payments), none of these things are the actions of a loving brother.
It’s shameful the way none of the family lifted a finger to defend Meghan or protect her from the press racism and lies, considering how aggressively the defend Kate from even stupid stories about hair, how Sophie and Andrew were publicly supported when their actions were far worse, not to mention how efficiently the Rose Hanbury story has been suppressed.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 27, 2021 13:13:54 GMT
I have to admit it amuses me that Harry and Meghan landed a huge Netflix deal when William’s attempts to pitch to Netflix were unsuccessful. You see, that it the end goal for a lot of people. They want them to get divorced. That is why they are purposely making their married life difficult. I don’t think that’s true at all. There was overwhelming support for Harry and Meghan from the moment they announced their engagement. I accept the press have been tough on them after the initial wave of excitement passed, but that is part of public life - and let’s be honest, Meghan’s family is the gift that keeps on giving. Come on, of course that’s not true. Meghan was bullied and smeared and subjected to racial abuse from the very first second their relationship became public. The racism was so bad Harry had to make a statement about it. One of my relatives used to work at Mumsnet and the extreme hate against Meghan in the run up to the wedding was so bad, they had people monitoring it 24/7. Posters using the N word, sockpuppeting, telling the most insane lies about Meghan, getting banned and creating new accounts, starting literally dozens of threads. Just to promote hate for some woman who’d had the audacity to get engaged to a white prince.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 20, 2021 19:29:13 GMT
The Isle of Wight scenes were filmed on the Welsh coast, I believe.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 18, 2021 18:21:24 GMT
Wow some people must love the devil a whole lot to be advocating for him this hard.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 6, 2021 3:09:52 GMT
There is no way a fundamental Christian is looking on Wiki or the internet to do research on anything, just not gonna happen. God and his word is ALL they care about. That's it, there is nothing else. But that isn’t Seyi. It’s some fundies, sure, but not her. She’s an ambitious career woman who has spent years pursuing a career as an actress, and who clearly cares/cared deeply about achieving success in a pretty secular and non-Christian career. At the very minimum she obviously researched information on how to apply to drama schools and how to prepare for auditions, presumably online. You’re acting like she’s one of the Kimmy Schmidt mole women who was just rescued from a cult bunker. She’s not an escapee from Waco, she’s an ordinary British woman who’s spent years focusing on a secular career, was allowed/encouraged to study and work outside her faith, spent years studying and working with people who are not only not Christians but likely people whose very existence went against what she’d been taught, who voluntarily worked on stage productions that promote ‘non Christian ideals’, and clearly had strong interests and ambitions which have nothing to do with Christianity. I watched the Louis Theroux docu and it’s both sad and interesting, but those people - the ones who have “nothing else” except robotically parroting the Bible - they’re about as likely to apply to (or be allowed to apply to) drama schools in London as they are change their names to Hail Satan.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 11, 2021 15:55:44 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 1, 2021 23:37:21 GMT
of Patti Lupone
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 1, 2021 21:42:52 GMT
editor attended with
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 1, 2021 21:41:49 GMT
Even with an existing hobby done more vigorously? Drinking.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 20, 2020 1:01:55 GMT
In no particular order:
The Welkin - NT all of it - Royal Court Seven Streams of the River Ota - NT The New Tomorrow - Young Vic (post-lockdown) Mad Forest - Bard College (a play performed live over Zoom)
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 19, 2020 20:10:33 GMT
Just when I’d finally repressed all memories of the Big Dishwasher Dance Number.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 5, 2020 18:09:54 GMT
At least it's Alan doing the music and not Elton John like the rumour was for a while... Elton John is doing the music for the other James Graham musical.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 4, 2020 16:53:24 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 3, 2020 18:08:43 GMT
A new James Graham online musical “We Begin Again” as part of National Theatre Public Acts is going to be streaming soonish.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 3, 2020 18:05:17 GMT
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 1, 2020 11:16:51 GMT
Giles Terera checking out his own understudy at Death of England last night. My first celeb spot since March!
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